A country without trash cans!

Looking into the waste management worries of India

No! The title is not misleading and yes! I am
talking about India. Here you see heaps of garbage rotting in every street
corner but you can never see a trash can ever. Ask the authorities and they
have the simple reply that people here don’t use trash cans even if there is
one, they like to sling their waste more. Ask the people and they would say the
authorities don’t collect from trash bins, so what’s the use of it? We sure do
love pointing fingers at each other for every action that we collectively do or
fail to do. What has it left us with? Big piles of uncontrolled and dangerous
heaps of garbage in specific areas in the country especially near the urban centers.

Last September two people were directly killed
by garbage heaps in Ghaziabad, the place where our capital city’s waste gets
dumped every day. All of us have studied how piles of garbage can affect the
quality of air, soil and water around it. The famous garbage piles of Ghaziabad
increases in height year after year, wafting a sickening cocktail of airborne
particles that infects the neighborhood with tuberculosis and dengue fever. The
groundwater there now has this filmy yellow color to it and god save the people
who ever try to directly consume it. All this and still the two people died by
none of it. The monsoon rains had a tower of trash break away from the heap
falling into a nearby canal, the sudden surge of waste pushed two motorcyclists
into another canal filled with dirty water, eventually killing them.

Similarly in Mumbai, the industrial capital of
India the latest findings report that 73% of the total garbage generated every
day is food waste. Food wastes are organic in nature and even a seventh
standard student can tell you that we can easily process it. Yet, we see this
habitual inaction and tendency to just dump it all. People don’t put the
necessary effort or the government just avert its eyes from the problem. How
long will we continue this? Manpower concerns, management issues and lack of
motivation are the strongest reasons behind India’s failing waste management
policies. Clubbed with the indifference people shows the problem has become an
epidemic.

If you remove the food waste from the garbage
equation, then there is only 20-40 percent of it left to deal with, making it
actually easier to manage it inside the current framework. The question is what
will be do with the food waste? Technology has provided an answer for us, which
is convenient, and simple. We have companies like Solwearth dedicate their time
and effort in creating products like SE food waste converter that can process
and food waste management made effortlessly.

Food waste converters like the ones from
Solwearth takes in food wastes, processes it, compressing it, to finally
produce soil supplements that can enrich our gardens with nutrients. The
smallest Solwearth food waste converter can process up to 50 Kg of food waste at
a time and the entire process takes only 15 hours to complete. This is a
revolutionary step in terms of sheer efficiency and time consumption. The space
requirement for thefood waste converter in Mumbaiis minimum and unlike the traditional
methods it has no foul smell emanating from it.The technology is ready, now our
attention must be on the implementation.

As always the first step should be from the
government and to an extent Swachh Bharat mission is the step forward. Now the
government, local bodies and individuals should come together and collectively
install food waste convertor systems like Solwearth’s SE organic waste converter machinein different neighborhoods, residential areas, urban clusters with restaurants
so that food waste get processed at the source itself. This eliminates the need
for transportation and tertiary level management of food waste. When the food
waste is taken care of, the remaining garbage can be effectively managed by the
government bodies themselves.

One must always remember that problems will
always find its way to us, but the solution comes only when we seek for it. The
increasing amount of waste is a real and dangerous problem that India is
facing. Take up the problem, use the solutions we have, act on it, then
together we can build a better nation.

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